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Re: cygwin1.dll mangling command line args


On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:23:03PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:55 PM
>Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll mangling command line args
>
>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:08:35AM -0400, Mark Blackburn wrote:
>> >Observe the following testcases
>> >
>> >test.c:
>> >int main(int argc, char** argv)
>> >{
>> >  int i;
>> >  for (i=0; i<argc; i++)
>> >    printf("%s\n",argv[i]);
>> >}
>> >
>> >D:\home\windows\desktop>gcc test.c -o test -mno-cygwin
>> >
>> >D:\home\windows\desktop>test \\mark\share "\\mark\share"
>> >test
>> >\\mark\share
>> >\\mark\share
>> >
>> >Everything is fine here.
>> >
>> >D:\home\windows\desktop>gcc test.c -o test
>> >
>> >D:\home\windows\desktop>test \\mark\share "\\mark\share"
>> >test
>> >\\mark\share
>> >\mark\share
>> >
>> >The second argument in the quotes loses a backslash
>This is correct - the first \ in the quotes escapes the second.

Unfortunately, it doesn't do this with native, msvc, compiled apps.
This is the age-old discussion regarding what command line paradigm
cygwin is supposed to emulate when it is not run from a UNIX shell.

cgf

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